(Pdf free) Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action

||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Extensive and Exhaustive Documentation of the Harms of Affirmative Action...|By Il Padrone|In America, the moral, economic, and political farce of affirmative action-a form of both governmental and private racism privileging minorities by the lowering of standards and thus the granting to them of jobs, placement in colleges and universities, contract set-asides,and cash settle|.com |Zelnick, a reporter for ABC News, obviously shares the opinion of many middle-class white Americans that affirmative action, however good its intentions, has helped foster racial animosity and inequal opportunity. Zelnick writes sharply, even angrily, a

"Make no mistake, this is going to be a controversial book. Bob Zelnick, a first–class journalist who is also a lawyer, has looked beyond the successes and well-meaning goals of affirmative action and found a bureaucratic morass that seems to have been designed by Kafka and implemented by Lewis Carroll. If our goals are fairness and racial harmony, we are obliged to address and answer the questions Zelnick raises."